MUA Voyage

MUA Voyage

Aucklanders were treated to a rare sight this morning as six traditional vaka sailed into Waitemata Harbour. The vaka - the Pacific Island's equivalent of the Maori waka - include two from the Hawaiian-based Polynesian Voyaging Society, which are on a Worldwide Voyage, covering 85 ports across 26...

Kia Orana Tatou,
Wow! How can I describe this visit of Marumaru Atua to Australia?
It has been 8 days since we left Pittwater in Sydney and now Aotearoa is rising out of the ocean as James Pakoti’s watch sees a whale glide by our vaka at 6am then Three Kings Islands...

Aloha Mai Kakou
This is Lei'ohu Santos-Colburn. I come from the village in Waimea on the island of Keawe. I am from the voyaging wa'a in Hawai'i; Hokule'a, Makali'i and coastal sailing wa'a Kanehunamoku.
I am aboard Marumaru Atua along with her cookie crew. Two days ago we...

We’ve left Sydney. The World Parks Congress is over, our message was delivered, our voices were heard. We’re going into the fifth day of our leg to Auckland and have all rested up from the whirlwind...

Kia Orana tatou katoatoa,
Greetings from Marumaru Atua zipping along the waters around 33-something degrees South and 161-something degrees East! It's a bit cold out here but we are keeping cozy with the warm gear and all the donated food we received before departing Sydney, specifically Rowlands Reserve in Bayview. To...

Born in Auckland, New Zealand, the eldest of five, whom according to Tua are a "fruit salad" of rich, mixed Polynesian blood, Cook Island-Tahitian on his mother's side and New Zealand Maori-Cook Islands on his fathers side. Tua's family relocated to Rarotonga when he was five years old....

Aere ra e te au Aito Tumutoa.
Watching my fellow brothers and sisters sail out of Australia to begin their voyage to Aotearoa was definitely an emotional one... It's not 'goodbye', it is 'see you on the other side'... which is somehow supposed to make farewells easier..
That didn't work of course,...

A fleet of four Polynesian vaka travelled to Sydney for the World Parks Congress carrying a simple message: the ocean may be vast but it is not limitless, and it needs protecting. At sea on the Mua Voyage between Fiji and Vanuatu. Photograph: Mua Voyage
To a master traditional navigator...

12 November, Sydney, Australia- The Director General of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) joined Pacific leaders and regional and international partners as the Mua Voyage of traditional ocean sailing canoes came to a dynamic, colourful and historic conclusion in Sydney today.